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they should’ve called it “amateur intelligence”. not in a derogatory way… but it helps amateurs like me venture into other fields. and it mostly produces amateur results. whether that’s ok or not depends on what you’re trying to do
June 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
they should’ve called it “amateur intelligence”. not in a derogatory way… but it helps amateurs like me venture into other fields. and it mostly produces amateur results. whether that’s ok or not depends on what you’re trying to do
Excellent post. I'm going to try and find some slow-code advocates in the software engineering space.
Back when I was finding my feet in tech everybody was buzzing about building positive change. Somewhere along the way, something changed. Fortunately for us though, tech is not the first industry forced to defend itself against dubious practices.
What might we learn if we were to look elsewhere?
What might we learn if we were to look elsewhere?
Looking elsewhere - Robb Owen
Against the backdrop of mass layoffs, LLMs, site-builders and vibe coding what does it mean to conscientiously build for the web, and where do we go from here?
robbowen.digital
June 2, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Excellent post. I'm going to try and find some slow-code advocates in the software engineering space.
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GitHub MCP suffers from the lethal trifecta for prompt injection: access to private data, exposure to malicious instructions + the ability to exfiltrate information
Be really careful with this stuff: attackers can trick your "agent" into stealing your private data simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/...
Be really careful with this stuff: attackers can trick your "agent" into stealing your private data simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/...
May 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
GitHub MCP suffers from the lethal trifecta for prompt injection: access to private data, exposure to malicious instructions + the ability to exfiltrate information
Be really careful with this stuff: attackers can trick your "agent" into stealing your private data simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/...
Be really careful with this stuff: attackers can trick your "agent" into stealing your private data simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/...
Nobody will ever read this. But the end of coding is very close - no surprise!! My evidence? 3 months building a SaaS product by myself.
April 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Nobody will ever read this. But the end of coding is very close - no surprise!! My evidence? 3 months building a SaaS product by myself.
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Wrote some notes on OpenAI codex, their new open CLI "agent" tool for writing and iterating on code. Since it's open source (Apache 2) the workings are available, including an interesting system prompt and a macOS sandbox using the sandbox-exec mechanism simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/16/...
![Here's the main prompt that runs in a loop, which starts like this:
You are operating as and within the Codex CLI, a terminal-based agentic coding assistant built by OpenAI. It wraps OpenAI models to enable natural language interaction with a local codebase. You are expected to be precise, safe, and helpful.
You can:
- Receive user prompts, project context, and files.
- Stream responses and emit function calls (e.g., shell commands, code edits).
- Apply patches, run commands, and manage user approvals based on policy.
- Work inside a sandboxed, git-backed workspace with rollback support.
- Log telemetry so sessions can be replayed or inspected later.
- More details on your functionality are available at codex --help
The Codex CLI is open-sourced. Don't confuse yourself with the old Codex language model built by OpenAI many moons ago (this is understandably top of mind for you!). Within this context, Codex refers to the open-source agentic coding interface. [...]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z/bafkreid3jhyccjkpklsy5y35zsmptqffrg3deejmvieohwtszupjg4iwba@jpeg)
April 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Wrote some notes on OpenAI codex, their new open CLI "agent" tool for writing and iterating on code. Since it's open source (Apache 2) the workings are available, including an interesting system prompt and a macOS sandbox using the sandbox-exec mechanism simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/16/...
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Biden, Trump Die 2 Minutes Apart Holding Hands
Biden, Trump Die 2 Minutes Apart Holding Hands
WASHINGTON—In a heartwarming and touching end to the story of two soulmates, sources confirmed Thursday that President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump died two minutes apart holding hands....
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November 13, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Biden, Trump Die 2 Minutes Apart Holding Hands
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New blog post: Composite Map Keys in JavaScript with Bitsets
A neat technique for generating composite map keys popped up on the Lit Discord, so I wrote about it!
justinfagnani.com/2024/11/09/c...
A neat technique for generating composite map keys popped up on the Lit Discord, so I wrote about it!
justinfagnani.com/2024/11/09/c...
November 9, 2024 at 8:37 PM
New blog post: Composite Map Keys in JavaScript with Bitsets
A neat technique for generating composite map keys popped up on the Lit Discord, so I wrote about it!
justinfagnani.com/2024/11/09/c...
A neat technique for generating composite map keys popped up on the Lit Discord, so I wrote about it!
justinfagnani.com/2024/11/09/c...